Probably its been covered but not recently. In MA right now diesel is about $0.15 more expensive than premium gas, maybe as much as $0.25 in some places. So say $0.45 more than regular gas. The tax on diesel is like $0.40 more than gas so that'd put us pretty much back on the level right there. I'd suggest raising the gas tax (fat chance) rather than reducing the diesel tax but I'm a conservationist at heart. We're at the tail end of heating season now and it was my experience (before last year, last year changed the rules) that by about the end of May diesel would be cheaper than gas and by about July it'd be considerably cheaper. It was the year before last where all summer diesel was something like $0.70 cheaper than gas. I was elated, we drove the 240D everywhere and my pickup sat parked. So this year? I have no freakin clue. I'm given to understand you can convert diesel into gasoline somewhat and thats what the refineries are doing to ease the price of gas which will inevitably raise the price of diesel. Crude oil futures are hard for me to understand. I guess they're still quite high, December 07 delivery is $67.89 which is way up from a year or two ago.... At any rate I wouldn't hold my breath for a big decline if fuel prices... -Curt Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:38:49 -0700 From: "Brian Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fuel Prices To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
I'm sure this has been covered before, so bear with me, but does anyone think that diesel will go back to being cheaper than gas? Or are we doomed to pay more from now on? Has there been some special tax applied to diesel? Why is it so much more now? Brian 83 240D --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 02 22:14:31 2006 Received: from web32810.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.40]) by server5.arterytc5.net with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FEw47-0007LA-4d for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:14:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 39771 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Mar 2006 22:14:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gMZ/i1v0QrFgt0+CE1T5UFErr03AgErik10RSEGotfvUdWJKo9vdgq4kRNO4rZ3b9QJ9oyhrD9anu9zqCX5Ppw3M8IPpi6+G9zthZ06fwIaIev3y7B31ua+E7gUAOpXO8Up4epDHJ72F/7Wniw4HzUlLosxyAfS9FR1GjIKsids= ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [198.51.119.130] by web32810.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:14:27 PST Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:14:27 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Door seals X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:14:31 -0000 More importantly why would it get bent at all? Still if you answer one question you've undoubtably answered both... Anything that can get bent over time could get bent suddenly. In this case we don't know if it got bent suddenly, I've only had the car about 3 months and its ALWAYS leaked air right there. -Curt Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:00:43 -0500 From: "andrew strasfogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Door seals To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Why would it get bent all of a sudden? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 02 22:15:46 2006 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.180]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FEw5K-0007Qm-GA for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:15:46 +0000 Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i49so174955pye for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:15:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=cK3EJYxKabNOrn7S06sScIHRMojZFHNUC8okDhLmlcrlSw/GEGdCJwyqF8+Aif9Y1iJzr2/BajZUMeedSDj71A4C/UnnzGwdBHzNkzKYqpCR5sxWBGihtRjjhvOZSwSqyQwJB+8ueVovZibxMBi8NO1oWQAhbc0LKJs44pBL980= Received: by 10.65.53.20 with SMTP id f20mr965563qbk; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.194.13 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:15:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:15:44 -0500 From: "Levi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fuel Prices X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:15:46 -0000 What I don't get is Home Heating Oil prices... At the last fillup I paid more for HHO than the price for diesel at the pump! And that's for road taxed diesel! Off-road diesel would be WAY cheaper, like probably close to $2 a gallon intsead of about $2.70 a gallon I paid. If it weren't a bit of a hassle and this being the first time I've had to think of it, I'd be more looking at taking a couple 55 gallon drums and going to get some farm diesel! Anyone have any idea why HHO is getting to be more expensive than diesel? (since as far as I'm aware, HHO is either the same, or LESS refined than diesel...) Levi On 3/2/06, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably its been covered but not recently. > > In MA right now diesel is about $0.15 more expensive than premium gas, > maybe as much as $0.25 in some places. So say $0.45 more than regular gas= . > The tax on diesel is like $0.40 more than gas so that'd put us pretty muc= h > back on the level right there. I'd suggest raising the gas tax (fat chanc= e) > rather than reducing the diesel tax but I'm a conservationist at heart. > We're at the tail end of heating season now and it was my experience > (before last year, last year changed the rules) that by about the end of = May > diesel would be cheaper than gas and by about July it'd be considerably > cheaper. It was the year before last where all summer diesel was somethin= g > like $0.70 cheaper than gas. I was elated, we drove the 240D everywhere a= nd > my pickup sat parked. > > So this year? I have no freakin clue. I'm given to understand you can > convert diesel into gasoline somewhat and thats what the refineries are > doing to ease the price of gas which will inevitably raise the price of > diesel. Crude oil futures are hard for me to understand. I guess they're > still quite high, December 07 delivery is $67.89 which is way up from a y= ear > or two ago.... > > At any rate I wouldn't hold my breath for a big decline if fuel > prices... > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:38:49 -0700 > From: "Brian Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fuel Prices > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=3Dflowed > > I'm sure this has been covered before, so bear with me, but does anyone > think that diesel will go back to being cheaper than gas? Or are we > doomed > to pay more from now on? Has there been some special tax applied to > diesel? > Why is it so much more now? > > Brian > 83 240D > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail > Bring photos to life! 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